Life is Strange - Episode 1

Overview

Life is Strange - Episode 1 is a 2015 Action game developed by DONTNOD Entertainment and published by Square Enix. On Steam it has gathered 122,835 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer DONTNOD Entertainment with publisher Square Enix is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6.6 million to 15.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Life is Strange - Episode 1 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Life is Strange - Episode 1 at roughly 6.6 million to 15.5 million copies, with a median around 11.1 million, derived from its 122,835 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $94.7M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Ecosystem

indielist positions Life is Strange - Episode 1 within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, DONTNOD Entertainment's other releases and Square Enix's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Life is Strange - Episode 1 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Life is Strange - Episode 1 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.